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King Solomon, with all the multitude of the children that were there, went tofore the Ark and offered sheep and oxen without estimation and number. And the priests set the Ark in the house of our Lord in the oracle of the temple, in sancta sanctorum, under the wings of cherubim. In the ark was nothing but the two tables of Moses of stone which Moses had put in.
But she did sympathise with him, did greet for him, did give him all her aid. Knowing what she was herself and how God had formed her, she had learned to bury self absolutely and to take all her earthly joy from the joys of others. Shall it not come to pass that, hereafter, she too shall have a lover among the cherubim? "What can I say to you?" replied Patience to the young man's earnest entreaty.
An epic in prose and every one of its books might be compared to the gem-encrusted hilt of a sword, and each wonderfully wrought jewel is a sentence; but the point of the sword, like that of the cherubim, is everywhere turned against superstition, bigotry, and religious wrong.
An' ef she had o' once-t mentioned me to the Lord confidential ez a person fitten to commingle with the cherubim an' seraphim, 'stid of a pore lost sinner not fitten to bresh up their wing-feathers for 'em, I b'lieve I might o' give in. I don't wonder I 'ain't never had a call to enter the Kingdom on her ricommendation.
"Do you mean to say that you've been givin' all the money you made here to this A 1 first-class cherubim?" "Yes; but he didn't know where I got it. O Mr. Hamlin! he didn't know that." "Do I understand you, that he's bin buckin agin Faro with the money that you raised on hash? And YOU makin' the hash?" "But he didn't know that, he wouldn't hev took it if I'd told him."
No wonder that God, in a code of laws prepared for such a people at such a time, should light up on its threshold a blazing beacon to flash terror on slaveholders. "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall be surely put to death." Ex. xxii. 16. God's cherubim and flaming sword guarding the entrance to the Mosaic system!
Fifthly, even in the orthodox Jahveh-worship, some symbols, as the twelve oxen in the porch of the temple, the horns of the altar for burnt-offerings, perhaps also the in part oxlike form of the cherubim, point to an earlier worship of the deity under the form of an ox, the symbol of the highest might, especially among the Semitic races.
But when night was creeping into the room, a new picture would dazzle her eyes, a picture this of other and incomparably greater glories. Proud in her motherhood, yet humble too at heart, she was gazing from the dim recesses of a sanctuary at her son, her Jean, clad in sacerdotal vestments, lifting the monstrance in the vaulted choir censed by the beating wings of half-seen Cherubim.
On an old tombstone in the foreground between me and them, were two cherubim; but for those celestial embellishments being represented as having no possible use for knee-breeches, stockings, or mittens, I should have compared them with the hay-makers, and sought a likeness. I coughed and awoke the echoes, but the hay-makers never looked at me.
"A deathless bubble from the fresh lips blown Of Cherubim at play about God's throne Seemed her virginity. She dreamed alone Dreams round and sparkling as some sea-washed stone. Then an oaf saw and lusted at the sight. They smashed the thing upon their wedding night." Dunch, Susan Miles.
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